Patents by Inventor Shingo Odajima
Shingo Odajima has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 7989522Abstract: A biodegradable wax composition containing a wax as a main component and also containing a biodegradable polymer and a filler and having a moisture permeability of 3 g·mm/m2·24 hr or less at 40° C. and 90% RH. The wax is preferably present in an amount of 65 to 95% by weight. The biodegradable polymer preferably has a weight average molecular weight of 200,000 or higher. The polymer is preferably polyisoprene or natural rubber and is preferably present in an amount of 5 to 35% by weight.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2004Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Shingo Odajima, Nobuyuki Isshiki, Hitoshi Otsuka, Hidetoshi Oga, Minoru Goto
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Publication number: 20100261834Abstract: A shape memory rubber molded article (1) obtained from a mixture containing a rubber and a crystalline non-polymeric compound. The rubber in the molded article is crosslinked. A deformed state of the shape memory rubber molded article (1) is fixed by crystallizing the non-polymeric compound, and the fixed deformed state is released by melting the non-polymeric compound. The non-polymeric compound is preferably a wax. The shape memory rubber molded article (1) preferably contains a crosslinking agent. In the molded article (1), the rubber and the non-polymeric compound are preferably in finely divided separate phases.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2008Publication date: October 14, 2010Applicant: Kao CorporationInventors: Shingo Odajima, Minoru Goto, Hitoshi Otsuka, Taichi Honma
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Patent number: 7671122Abstract: A process of producing a wax composition mainly comprising a wax, including the step of mixing the wax and a component to be mixed with the wax by applying an external force at a temperature lower than the melting completion temperature of the wax.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2003Date of Patent: March 2, 2010Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Shingo Odajima, Nobuyuki Isshiki, Hidetoshi Oga, Hitoshi Otsuka, Minoru Goto, Akira Kawamata
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Patent number: 7500487Abstract: A hairdressing tool includes a slender hair holder having a hair inlet at one end thereof and made of a flexible material, a hair inserter for inserting hair in or through the hair holder, and a curler for rolling, curving or bending the hair held by the hair holder into a prescribed shape. A hairdressing method includes holding a prescribed amount of hair in or through a slender hair holder of a hairdressing tool, the hair holder including a flexible material and being capable of holding hair, and rolling, curving or bending the hair held by the hair holder by a prescribed curler possessed by the hair holder.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2002Date of Patent: March 10, 2009Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Hideo Kobayashi, Takehiko Tojo, Naohiro Kariya, Shingo Odajima
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Patent number: 7449087Abstract: A method of producing a fiber molded article using a pressing mold, includes inserting a first split and a second split into a slurry tank such that a fiber layer is formed on the first split and a fiber layer is formed on the second split, placing the pressing mold, which includes a solid elastic member and an inflatable elastic member configured to be inflated, onto the fiber layer on the first split, joining the first split and the second split such that a fiber molded article is formed from the fiber layer on the first split and the fiber layer on the second split, and dewatering and shaping the fiber molded article by pressing the fiber molded article by the solid elastic pressing member and the inflatable elastic pressing member.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2002Date of Patent: November 11, 2008Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Shingo Odajima, Tokihito Sono, Koichi Sagara, Hiromichi Kimbara
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Patent number: 7370788Abstract: A molded article (10) made predominantly of pulp and comprising a bottom portion (13) and a body portion (12), wherein the angle ? between the outer surface of a side wall of the body portion (12) and the ground contact plane (B) of the bottom portion (13) is 85° or greater, and the height of the body portion (12) is 50 mm or more.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 1999Date of Patent: May 13, 2008Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Kenichi Otani, Yoshiaki Kumamoto, Koichi Sagara, Shinji Kodama, Minoru Goto, Susumu Fujinami, Tokuo Tsuura, Shinji Otakura, Takehiko Tojo, Yukiya Sato, Masataka Ishikawa, Shingo Odajima, Masanori Takita
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Patent number: 7306834Abstract: A heat-insulating container having a first fiber layer (111) with a prescribed density and a second fiber layer (112) which is formed inside the first fiber layer (111) and has a lower density than the first fiber layer (111). The first fiber layer (111) is 0.2 to 1 mm thick, and the second fiber layer (112) is 0.4 to 3 mm thick, with the total thickness of the first fiber layer (111) and the second fiber layer (112) being 0.6 to 4 mm.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2001Date of Patent: December 11, 2007Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Akira Nonomura, Masaaki Suzuki, Atsushi Sato, Tadashi Nakata, Shinji Kodama, Shingo Odajima, Mitsuyuki Kubo
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Publication number: 20070078214Abstract: A biodegradable wax composition containing a wax as a main component and also containing a biodegradable polymer and a filler and having a moisture permeability of 3 g·mm/m2·24 hr or less at 40° C. and 90% RH. The wax is preferably present in an amount of 65 to 95% by weight. The biodegradable polymer preferably has a weight average molecular weight of 200,000 or higher. The polymer is preferably polyisoprene or natural rubber and is preferably present in an amount of 5 to 35% by weight.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2004Publication date: April 5, 2007Applicant: KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Shingo Odajima, Nobuyuki Isshiki, Hitoshi Otsuka, Hidetoshi Oga, Minoru Goto
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Publication number: 20060233865Abstract: A process of producing a wax composition mainly comprising a wax, including the step of mixing the wax and a component to be mixed with the wax by applying an external force at a temperature lower than the melting completion temperature of the wax.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2003Publication date: October 19, 2006Applicant: KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Shingo Odajima, Nobuyuki Isshiki, Hidetoshi Oga, Hitoshi Otsuka, Minoru Goto, Akira Kawamata
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Patent number: 7067041Abstract: A method of producing pulp moldings having a paper-making process comprising the steps of assembling split mold halves (11, 12) having suction passageways (14) to form a paper-making mold (10), feeding pulp slurry of predetermined set feed concentration into the cavity (13) in the paper-making mold (10), and sucking the pulp slurry through the suction passageways (14) to form a pulp layer (15) on the inner surface of the paper-making mold (10), wherein the concentration of the pulp slurry in the cavity (13) in the initial and/or final period of formation of the pulp layer (15) in the paper-making process is lower than the above-mentioned set feed concentration of the pulp slurry.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2001Date of Patent: June 27, 2006Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Tokuo Tsuura, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Kenichi Otani, Masayuki Osaki, Shingo Odajima
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Patent number: 7048975Abstract: A pulp molded container comprising a pulp molded article (2) having on the inner surface and/or the outer surface thereof a resin layer (3) with a thickness of 5 to 300 ?m formed by applying a coating, wherein the thickness ratio of the resin layer (3) to the molded article (2) (former/latter) is 1/2 to 1/100, and the surface roughness profile of the outer or inner surface of the pulp molded article is such that a centerline average roughness (Ra) is 0.5 to 20 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2000Date of Patent: May 23, 2006Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Takehiko Tojo, Yoshiaki Kumamoto, Masataka Ishikawa, Kunio Matsui, Eiki Kimura, Koichi Sagara, Kenichi Otani, Shingo Odajima, Tokihito Sono
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Patent number: 7008509Abstract: A molded body formed with pulp mold having projected lines corresponding to a slit-shaped vent package part, capable of being provided by paper-making/dewatering, using a paper making mold, a slurry having fibers dispersed in a liquid so as to obtain a three-dimensional fiber wetted laminated body, moving the laminated body to a dry mold having an inner surface with the slit-shaped vent package, and pressing and drying that laminated body.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2000Date of Patent: March 7, 2006Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Kenichi Otani, Toshio Kobayashi, Toshiharu Togashi, Shingo Odajima, Tokihito Sono, Masayuki Osaki, Hiromichi Kimbara, Atsushi Sato
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Publication number: 20050163944Abstract: A biodegradable film having a biodegradable moisture barrier layer between two biodegradable resin layers. The moisture barrier layer is preferably made mainly of a biodegradable wax. The moisture barrier layer preferably contains the biodegradable wax and a biodegradable, heat-resistant polymer. The polymer is preferably natural rubber or polyisoprene.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2003Publication date: July 28, 2005Applicant: KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuyuki Isshiki, Shingo Odajima, Minoru Goto
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Patent number: 6857199Abstract: A drying mold 1 for a pulp molded article has a first mold member 10, a second mold member 20, and a third mold member 30. The first mold member 10 has a drying portion 12 and first passageways 13a and 13b connecting the drying portion 12 to an exterior surface of the first mold member 10. The second mold member 20 has a prescribed heating means and is disposed in contact with the exterior surface of the third mold member 30. The third mold member 30 is disposed in contact with the exterior surface of the first mold member 10. The drying mold 1 is designed to form second passageways 2a and 2b between the first and the third mold members when the first and the third mold members are disposed in contact with each other. The passageways 2a and 2b connect the first passageways 13a and 13b to the outside of the drying mold 1.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2001Date of Patent: February 22, 2005Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Kenichi Otani, Shingo Odajima, Tokihito Sono
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Publication number: 20040241274Abstract: A pressing mold for producing a fiber molded article which is used to press a fiber molded article (10) placed in a shaping mold (11) toward the inner surface of the shaping mold (11) to carry out a dewatering and shaping step or a drying and shaping step. The pressing mold has a solid first elastic pressing member (2) and a hollow second elastic pressing member (3) which is inflatable by a fluid fed into the inside, the first and second elastic pressing members (2) and (3) being adapted to press the fiber molded article (10) toward the inner surface of the shaping mold (11).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2004Publication date: December 2, 2004Inventors: Shingo Odajima, Tokihito Sono, Koichi Sagara, Hiromichi Kimbara
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Publication number: 20040231689Abstract: A hairdressing tool of the invention comprises a slender hair holder having a hair inlet at one end thereof and made of a flexible material, a hair inserter for inserting hair in or through the hair holder, and curling means for rolling, curving or bending the hair held by the hair holder into a prescribed shape. A hairdressing method of the invention comprises holding a prescribed amount of hair in or through a slender hair holder of a hairdressing tool, the hair holder comprising a flexible material and being capable of holding hair, and rolling, curving or bending the hair held by the hair holder by prescribed curling means possessed by the hair holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2004Publication date: November 25, 2004Inventors: Hideo Kobayashi, Takehiko Tojo, Naohiro Kariya, Shingo Odajima
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Patent number: 6645348Abstract: Pulp deposited bodies (7 and 8) are formed on the surfaces (2a and 3a) of a set of splits (2 and 3) of a papermaking mold, each split having a plurality of interconnecting holes connecting the outside to the inside thereof, and the splits (2 and 3) are mated to join the pulp deposited bodies (7 and 8).Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2002Date of Patent: November 11, 2003Assignee: Kao CorporationInventors: Yoshiaki Kumamoto, Shinji Otakura, Kenichi Otani, Shingo Odajima, Tokuo Tsuura
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Publication number: 20030150582Abstract: A method of producing pulp moldings having a paper-making process comprising the steps of assembling split mold halves (11, 12) having suction passageways (14) to form a paper-making mold (10), feeding pulp slurry of predetermined set feed concentration into the cavity (13) in the paper-making mold (10), and sucking the pulp slurry through the suction passageways (14) to form a pulp layer (15) on the inner surface of the paper-making mold (10), wherein the concentration of the pulp slurry in the cavity (13) in the initial and/or final period of formation of the pulp layer (15) in the paper-making process is lower than the above-mentioned set feed concentration of the pulp slurry.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2003Publication date: August 14, 2003Inventors: Tokuo Tsuura, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Kenichi Otani, Masayuki Osaki, Shingo Odajima
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Publication number: 20030009903Abstract: A drying mold 1 for a pulp molded article has a first mold member 10, a second mold member 20, and a third mold member 30. The first mold member 10 has a drying portion 12 and first passageways 13a and 13b connecting the drying portion 12 to an exterior surface of the first mold member 10. The second mold member 20 has a prescribed heating means and is disposed in contact with the exterior surface of the third mold member 30. The third mold member 30 is disposed in contact with the exterior surface of the first mold member 10. The drying mold 1 is designed to form second passageways 2a and 2b between the first and the third mold members when the first and the third mold members are disposed in contact with each other. The passageways 2a and 2b connect the first passageways 13a and 13b to the outside of the drying mold 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2002Publication date: January 16, 2003Inventors: Kenichi Otani, Shingo Odajima, Tokihito Sono
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Publication number: 20020189776Abstract: Pulp deposited bodies (7 and 8) are formed on the surfaces (2a and 3a) of a set of splits (2 and 3) of a papermaking mold, each split having a plurality of interconnecting holes connecting the outside to the inside thereof, and the splits (2 and 3) are mated to join the pulp deposited bodies (7 and 8).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2002Publication date: December 19, 2002Applicant: KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiaki Kumamoto, Shinji Otakura, Kenichi Otani, Shingo Odajima, Tokuo Tsuura